UW Law School Professor Stewart Macaulay has won the Outstanding Scholar Award conferred annually by the American Bar Foundation. The highly esteemed award recognizes fellows of the ABF who have engaged in outstanding scholarship in the law or in government.

Macaulay's honor was announced publicly at the ABF's Fellows Annual Banquet in San Antonio, February 7, 2004. Both Macaulay and Professor Stanton Wheeler of Yale University are the 2004 recipients.

Winners of the Outstanding Scholar Award through the years have been the nation's leading legal scholars. The roster of past award recipients highlights the significance of the honor:

Arthur T. Vanderbilt (1957)

Albert J. Harno (1958)

John C. Cooper (1959)

Erwin N. Griswold (1960)

Reginald Herber Smith (1961)

Herbert F. Goodrich (1962)

Robert N. Miller (1963)

Austin W. Scott (1964)

F. Blythe Mason (1965)

Arthur Linton Corbin (1966)

Herbert Wechsler (1967)

Lawrence Bennett (1968)

Robert A. Leflar (1969)

Ray Garrett, Sr. (1970)

A. James Casner (1971)

Elliott Evans Cheatham (1972)

Paul A. Freund (1973)

J. Willard Hurst (1974)

Henry Jacob Friendly (1975)

Kenneth Culp Davis (1976)

Milton Handler (1977)

James William Moore (1978)

Mason Ladd (1979)

Louis Loss (1980)

Norval Morris (1981)

Charles Fairman (1982)

Robert L. Stern (1983)

Spencer L. Kimball (1984)

Philip B. Kurland (1985)

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. (1986)

Boris I. Bittker (1987)

Walther Gellhorn (1988)

Charles Alan Wright (1989)

Herma Hill Kay (1990)

Francis A. Allen (1991)

Maurice Rosenberg (1992)

Archibald Cox (1993)

Carl A. Auerbach (1994)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1995)

Yale Kamisar (1996)

Louis Henkin (1997)

Guido Calabresi (1998)

Sanford H. Kadish (1999)

Roger C. Crampton (2000)

Lawrence M. Friedman (2001)

Louis B. Sohn (2002)

Richard Posner (2003)

Submitted by on February 9, 2004

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